ANNOUNCEMENT

WOW what a trip down memory lane it was looking over the posts on this blog.  I am now in the process of downloading some of the pictures and then removing the posts - to start again.

August 2017 - Russia

Used the stamps and stencil with a theme of Russia - Mainly the Chocolate Baroque ones, but other lines have produced their own.  Also a couple of the crafting magazines have had some downloads on this theme.

Russian Egg Card

May 2017 - A4 Journal Pages

This month we played we random sponging of paint, dimension paste through a stencil and creating a tag using acetate - influenced by Andy Skinner demos and stamps/stencils.

Archaeology Page

March 2017 - Adding Gesso Highlights

• First of all we recapped how to create the ink background.  Then we applied water by flicking and through a stencil to lift some of the ink.
• Then it was a light spray of the ink, to get some darker colour spots on the background.
• Then using the coordinating dark dylusion paint, stamped some texture onto the main page.
• Then we applied highlights of white gesso, using wallpaper technique (Seth Apter has a demo online about this)
• Then stamped the word Fashion (Inkydoodles stitched tile alphabet) and the border (Dylusion Stamp)..
• Then stamped the lady image (Dylusion stamps) on the main page and on a mop up page.  Overstamped the dress and hat on the mop-up page with script and cut them out.
• Using the Groovi system (Clarity Stamp), created two heads with hats on parchment and coloured them in and cut them out.
• Stuck everything on the main page.
• Lifted the ink out of the fashion tiles so they could be read and put dark grey line around two sides of the tiles.
• Stamped the words (Dimension Stamps).
• Added the peel-off stars.

January 2017 - Inks and Ghosting

This month we played around with Dylusion ink sprays and various types of paper (Dylusion Journal, Stamping Card, Watercolour card etc). Then we flicked water over these backgrounds to lift the ink and create a ghost.

Later on, we created the journey page below, using Visible Image Stamps and Dylusion Border stamps.

November 5th - Travel

First of all this month we played with creating backgrounds for the Hot Air Balloon cards we will be making next month, so that they had time to dry before the class finished.

After the lunch break we made a start on the following three cards.

Card 1 - This was a revision of a waterfall card - papers and mechanism all downloaded from Craftsuprint.

Card 2 - I was going through my old craft magazines and taking out the bits that I wanted to kept.  When I came across the papers to make this card.  So the were still on the card-making and papercraft website, so I could download them and print them on better paper.

Card 3 - This was a shape of card I came across whilst searching the internet for inspiration one day.  It was a shape that no-one in the group had made before.

Sept 3rd - Mixed Media

A change to the published schedule. The group saw what I had created at workshop with Julia Watts and wanted to have a go themselves.  The following three images are Julia's.

This next one is mine from Julia's workshop.

Decided to be more ambitious with the one at craft class.

Only got as far as getting the layout of the bits.

July 2nd - Painting Bottles.

We saved some jars from home, bought bottles from the Charity Shops and Supermarkets for painting this month.  First of all we gesso'd the bottles, before adding colour and paper transfers.  Also decoupaged some glasses and added tea lights to them.

Wished I had seen these bottles of Hels Sheridan before the class.

This is a decorated jar from a recent Dreamees workshop - started there and finished at home.

May - Leonie Pujol's Stamps and Stencils/Masks

This month we played with the first release of Leonie's stamps and stencil/masks.

I am still trying to decide how to finish them off.

Create - background created by using a bit of cut'n'dry foam and loading up with colour on the end of the foam, and then swiping from the centre of the mask outwards.

Used a brush to create the stripes over the mask.  Do I colour the birds or paper piece them or what?  Take extra care with the Sing masks, most of mine have lost their S's due to mask breakage, what letters could I add 'ing' to?

Fun - a work in progress, the mask is still stuck in place, waiting to be stamped over.

Home - done at a Julia Watts - stencil masterclass.

The following was also done at Julia's workshop.

This is a skinny sent to me in a swap - they used Leonie's Stamps and Mask.  (Skinny is a piece of work 3 inches by 6 inches)

This was a card I spotted on the internet that was not linked to Crafter's Companion, Hochanda or the Design posts - like the idea - more adventurous than I was with my Crazy Birds

cornishkat.blogspot.co.uk/

and there then was this one going a step further and using stampbord

lilymaecreations.blogspot.co.uk/

April - Tim Holtz Tags

Personal request for this month.  I have been stocking up over the years on the products that Tim uses on his tags, so that I can have a play with them, but have never got round to it.

So this month brought all the materials I had and made the January 2016 tag plus the two tags that Tim linked to this tag.

Tags not identical to Tim's as had to modify the designs, as I found that I had two alarm clock dies and not one alarm clock and one stopwatch.  Also did not want the alarm clock on two tags out of the three, when I mounted them on my A4 Canvas board.

March - Background Dies

This month we made some cards where the main feature was the background card.

February - Clocks

Using the Indigoblu Clocks kit made a small circular clock before the class, so the class could see what they were aiming for.

While explaining to the class how to get this clock, I made the following clock.

December - Music

This month we went with a theme of Music.  Everyone bought along stamps, peel-offs and paper etc, that linked in with the theme of Music.  I brought along cards or images of cards that I had created over the last 12-18 months for inspiration.   Everyone then did what they wanted.

Inspiration Cards

 From Clarity Stamps

 From Dimension Stamps

 From Paper Nation/Jolly Nation

 From Paper Nation/Jolly Nation, Dimension Stamps (Record and Background) and Indigo blue (words)

 Clarity Stamps letter set.

 From Craftsuprint

  From Dimension Stamps

 From Dimension Stamps

From Dimension Stamps

This is the card I created on the day, in-between helping others.

The butterfly music collage stamp (from Imagination Crafts) was stamped on heat resistant acetate in versamark and black embossing powder applied and heated.  On the reverse of the image, it was coloured using mica powders mixed with water (from Phill Martin Cosmic Shimmer Range).  The music paper was sections I cut out from an old sheet music book (brought at a charity book shop).

September - Simple Classy Male Cards

This month we created some simple but classy looking male card before lunch and in the afternoon played with our goodies bought at Harrogate yesterday.

First Card - Sample Made before Class

First Card - Demo Made in Class

Second Card - Sample Made Before Class

Second Card - Demo Made in Class (Guess who had found her stamp dies by then)

Third Card - Sample Made for Class